"officiate" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈfiʃ.i.eɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-officiate.wav Forms: officiates [plural]
Etymology: Circa 17th century, from Latin officiātus, perfect passive participle of officiō (“conduct or perform religious services”), from Latin officium (“official duty, service”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃ep-}}, {{bor|en|la|officiātus}} Latin officiātus, {{der|en|la|officium||official duty, service}} Latin officium (“official duty, service”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} officiate (plural officiates)
  1. A person appointed to office
    Sense id: en-officiate-en-noun-CDV9y3OX

Verb

IPA: /əˈfiʃ.i.eɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-officiate.wav Forms: officiates [present, singular, third-person], officiating [participle, present], officiated [participle, past], officiated [past]
Etymology: Circa 17th century, from Latin officiātus, perfect passive participle of officiō (“conduct or perform religious services”), from Latin officium (“official duty, service”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃ep-}}, {{bor|en|la|officiātus}} Latin officiātus, {{der|en|la|officium||official duty, service}} Latin officium (“official duty, service”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} officiate (third-person singular simple present officiates, present participle officiating, simple past and past participle officiated)
  1. (intransitive, transitive) To perform the functions of some office. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to perform the functions of some office): изпълнявам задължения (izpǎlnjavam zadǎlženija) (Bulgarian), toimittaa (Finnish), amtieren (German), oficiar (Ido), przewodniczyć (Polish), pełnić obowiązki (Polish), исполнять обязанности (ispolnjatʹ objazannosti) (Russian), oficiar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-officiate-en-verb-7HFHOMmf Disambiguation of 'to perform the functions of some office': 99 1
  2. (intransitive, transitive, sports) To serve as umpire or referee. Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Sports Translations (to serve as umpire or referee): съдия съм (sǎdija sǎm) (Bulgarian), sędziować (Polish), döma (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-officiate-en-verb--CXmpPxS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 12 69 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 19 22 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 15 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 16 69 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 18 18 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 14 16 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 19 21 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 15 18 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 18 20 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 15 16 69 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'to serve as umpire or referee': 1 99

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.